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That afternoon the politician in Lyndon took over again from the statesman. Setting out on a tour of local sights, Johnson spotted a crowd gathered on the sidewalk. He stopped his car, got out and made for the crowd at a lope, flashing a 100-watt smile. Ignoring the language barrier, he made an impromptu speech saying that Diem was the "Churchill of the decade," who would "fight Communism in the streets and alleys, and when his hands are torn he will fight it with his feet...
...student locked up his treasured 150-watt spotlights from the maintenance boys; another remarked, "It's going to be pretty dim up here." No one was sure just where in the hierarchy the order to change bulbs originated...
...English scientist who invented radar has published a stinging attack on C. P. Snow's Fall Godkin Lectures, "Science and Government." Writing in the current Saturday Review, Sir Robert Watson-Watt takes issue with Snow's general thesis, as well as most of the British novelist's facts...
...Watson-Watts says that Snow's account is "nonsense." Snow's descriptions of Lindemann's villainous character are factually incorrect: "the Lindemann I knew was astonishingly unlike the abominable Snow man." According to Watson-Watt, Lindemann supported the development of radar all along, and contrary to Snow's "melodramatic stage character," he was an able, intelligent administrator...
Snow's story of the quarrel between Lindemann and Tizard is thoroughly one-sided and "novelistic," Watson-Watt declares: "I suspect that the itch became unbearable and the novelist dug in, involving himself emotionally in the affairs of his subjects, as a novelist must, and arranging the facts accordingly, as a historian must...